Chapter 167: Tang Riddle

"It's... I know. "Harry didn't think that there would be so many doorways in a book, and the wizarding world is really dangerous.www.biquge.info

The book lay on the floor, soaked and blurry.

"Okay, I'm not going to open it," Harry looked down and picked up the book from the floor, taking advantage of Ron's inattention.

Harry recognized it immediately, it was a notebook, and the faded date on the cover showed that it had been fifty years old. He flipped the book over to the back cover, which was printed with the name of a newspaper dealer and the address of his shop on London's Vauxhall Road.

"It's a student's notebook, he's supposed to be a Muggle, and only Muggles would buy notebooks at the Vauxhall Road store. Harry was able to roughly guess the origin of the book based on the information revealed on the cover of the book.

"You're amazing. Ron said with some surprise, he didn't expect Harry to guess so much from such a small detail, "Maybe we can open it and see that a Muggle student's notebook doesn't have much terrible power." ”

Harry was about to do so, he carefully flipped through the notebook, and on the first page, on the wet paper, the blurred ink was a barely recognizable name, Tang Riddle.

"Wait. Ron thought of something, "I know, I remember the name, Tang Riddle received the Special Contribution Award to the school. ”

"How do you know?" Harry couldn't recall any books that could have contained such information.

"You know, Filch likes to punish students for their labor, and we are not allowed to use wands. Ron was a little indignant at the mention of this, "I was once punished, and it was not easy to wipe such a trophy with a rag to make it as clean as magic. ”

Harry continued to flip back through the pages, and there was nothing, all blank. There wasn't even the slightest imprint, the cover was old enough to show the traces of time, but the paper was as good as new.

"He didn't write anything. Harry said disappointedly, "It's just an old journal, it's worthless." ”

"Well, it's hard to write anything useful in a student's notebook, let alone someone who throws it away. Ron said disapprerovingly, a really useful magic book, maybe there are some special protective measures.

Still, Harry was a little reluctant to put the notebook in his pocket.

Back in the dormitory, Harry showed Hermione the notebook and told him how they had found it.

"It doesn't look special, but we can try. Hermione took the notebook and looked at it carefully.

"Maybe it's nothing at all, just a simple student notebook. Ron wasn't optimistic about their speculation, how secret a student's notebook could be, "If it's embarrassed to meet people, why don't you just throw it away?"

"I wonder why anyone would throw it in the bathroom, it's not a good idea to handle a notebook. Harry said with some confusion, "Also, I seem to know how Riddle received the Hogwarts Special Contribution Award. ”

"Who knows. Ron disagreed, believing that it was a waste of time to study a blank notebook from fifty years ago, "He may have captured thirty owls or rescued a teacher from a monster." Or maybe he murdered Myrtle, and I think everyone would thank him for it. ”

But Harry and Hermione still had focused expressions on their faces, and they didn't think it was completely futile like Ron, but thought of something.

"What did you find?" Ron looked at Hermione suspiciously, then at Harry.

"The Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years ago, wasn't it?" Hermione grasped the point.

"So what?" said Ron, disapprovingly.

"This notebook is also from fifty years ago. Hermione excitedly waved the notebook in her hand.

"And then?" Ron thought they were making too much fuss, it was just a notebook where nothing was written, and the point was not notes, but nothing.

"Ron, wake up. Hermione said angrily, "Think about it, the last time the heir of Slytherin was expelled fifty years ago. We also know that Tom Riddle received the school's Special Contribution Award fifty years ago. Isn't it obvious enough to connect these together?"

Hermione was a little surprised by Ron's sluggishness, "It's likely that Riddle won the Special Contribution Award for catching the Slytherin heir. And his notebook is probably hidden, where is the secret room, how to open it. There is even information about the heirs of Slytherin. ”

"That's brilliant reasoning, Hermione. Ron also thought the reasoning was great, "But first you have to make sure that there is really something in this notebook, and that it's just a blank notebook." ”

"I'll find out about it. Hermione said forcefully, pulling her wand out of her bag, "Probably a hidden potion." ”

She tapped her wand on her notebook a few times and said, "Appear quickly"

The notebook didn't respond, and she wasn't discouraged. Continue to pull out an object from the bag, which is a red eraser. "This is the invisible eraser I bought in Diagon Alley to break the invisible. She said as she wiped the eraser vigorously in her notebook, but there was still nothing.

That's it, it's actually very simple, Riddle just received a notebook for Christmas, but he didn't plan to write anything on it. Ron looked like he had known it for a long time.

"It's not that simple, a blank notebook from fifty years ago will not be kept until now, and no one will suddenly throw it away. Harry didn't believe the notebook was fine.

It may be difficult to explain, but he had a strange feeling, like a hunch. He was sure that he had never heard of Tomridel's name, but an inexplicable feeling made him feel that the name was very special to him, as if Tondridel were a distant friend.

Of course, he didn't have any friends except Hogwarts. The Dursleys forbade him to make friends lest they expose his mistreatment. It is even more impossible for him to make friends with a person from fifty years ago, but this inexplicable feeling has always appeared in his heart.

He couldn't let go of the notebook, and he would look thoughtfully through the blank notes page by page, as if he could see something in the blank space.

Regardless, Harry was planning to learn more about Riddle. On the second day, he went to the prize showroom to see Riddle's special contribution medal.

Hermione was also interested in discovering something, but Ron was not interested, he had been punished by Filch for scrubbing the prizes here many times, and he was tired of it.

(To be continued.) )